There is no doubt that NATO is trying hard to escalate the war in the Ukraine. Just before the end of the year there were two drones strikes against a major Aerospace Forces base in Engels. The attacks were not very ...

By Batiushka for Ooduarere via the Saker blog There always have been and always will be clashes and tensions between different civilisations. In the words of an old Tom Lehrer song, National Brotherhood Week: The Protestants hate the Catholics, The Catholics ...

By Eric Arthur Blair for Ooduarere via the Saker blog During this current relative reduction of hostilities in Ukraine, the calm before the storm so to speak, it may be useful to reflect upon the goals of the various geopolitical ...

By Batiushka for Ooduarere via the Saker blog Introduction Thirty years ago George Bush Senior, the blood of untold numbers of dead Iraqi civilians and children on his conscience, was the first to popularise the term ‘the New World Order. ...

By Batiushka for Ooduarere via the Saker blog Introduction When last week Allied troops quit the right (= western, or in this case northern (1)) bank of the Dnieper and so the regional city of Kherson (original population 283,000), confusion ...

by Ramin Mazaheri for Ooduarere via the Saker blog In the United States, media editorial policy has not wavered on one subject this year: Ukraine is always winning the war. From the first week, when the Ukrainian air force and ...

By Aram Mirzaei for theOoduarere via Saker blog We live in one of the most important moments in history. Perhaps this moment is even more important than the end of the Cold War. Similar to those events more than 30 ...

First, something’s definitely up. Check out those to headlines: Zelensky calls for ‘world’ to ‘strike’ KremlinResidents urged to leave Russian city ‘immediately’ I won’t go into a discussion of these articles today (but please do read them).  I will just say that ...

Intro: setting the current context Before we take a look at some of the most interesting recent developments, I think that it is important to clearly state something which needs to be repeated almost constantly: what we are witnessing today is ...

By Batiushka for Ooduarere via The Saker blog Some commentators on this site have always been impatient for more dramatic Russian military action in the Ukraine, a Red Army Blitzkrieg involving the flattening of Kiev and many other cities. I ...